WHATEVER HAPPENED
TO HAROLD SMITH

Year: 1999
USA: USA Films
UK: UIP (UK)
Cast: Tom Courtenay, Stephen Fry, Michael Legge, Laura Fraser, Lulu, David Thewlis, Rosemary Leach, Amanda Root, Matthew Rhys, James Corden, Charlie Hunnam, Charlotte Roberts, Keith Chegwin, Uri Geller, John Harrison, Mark Williams
Director: Pete Hewitt
Countries: USA / UK
UK: 95 mins
USA Rated: R for language and some sexual content
UK Certificate: 15
USA Release Date: 8 June 2001 (Limited Release)
UK Release Date: 10 March 2000

Synopsis

It is 1977. Eighteen-year-old Vince (Michael Legge) is obsessed with disco, until his world turns upside down when he falls in love with an exotic punk, not realising that she is Joanna (Laura Fraser), his workmate in a solicitor's office. Meanwhile, Vince's father Harold (Tom Courtenay) passes his retirement in front of the television, being ignored by his still-glamorous wife Irene (Lulu), who prefers the company of younger men. Then, one Christmas Day, Harold reveals an unlikely knack for performing miraculous tricks, which catapults him reluctantly into the limelight and changes all their lives forever.